Nick Rout wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi there, I spent much of yesterday puzzled by a samba setup that just won't
do what I expect. This is a new installation of Hardy using the alternate
installation to set up raid1, though the Home partition is that from a prior
SuSE 10.1 installation. This is not the same as the thread I started
earlier in the week however some of the symptoms are similar, and I now
realise that issues I have with my home Hardy installation is also similar.
My googling shows plenty of people saying they're having problems, lots of
responses of "I don't have any problem with mine" or any suggestions to
solve are covered by what I have done already, as follows:
1. Create a few users, add them to a group or 2.
2. sudo smbpasswd -a <user>
3. Via konqueror right clicking a folder to share > Properties > Share, and
follow your nose from there. This is far from being rocket science. (I've
also used webmin to try to configure the share but without success at home)
4. Use of chown and chmod (sometimes with -R) to apply various permissions
to sub-folders.
Connecting from a couple of XP machines it now gets interesting. From one,
there is a refusal to authenticate any user created above when trying to
access the share - I get "incorrect password or unknown username for
\\machine\share". The only XP user that can connect is my own user - the
same username as the first kubuntu user created who gets to use their
password for sudo.
From another, I can connect to the share despite that user NOT existing on
the linux box! Further, I could browse to sub-folders, open files, where
permissions are such that the connecting user is neither the linux/samba
user or in the group that owns the folder and permissions are 0700.
I'd be very interested in any opinions on what might be causing me to go
insane and consider a career change. Is there anything in that old Home
folder that might create problems - I would have thought that all the action
is in "/" and that, as I mentioned, is fresh.
Thanks for any pointers, to which I will try to follow up on today but it
may end up having to be next week.
Roger
Is the user who wants to share in the sambashare group on the hardy machine?
Thanks - no the user is not in sambashare. So smbpasswd isn't doing
what it should (or the method has changed now). I'll sort that out.
I've also found some weirdness with hostname resolution - I connected
via krdc (from my own workstation) to what ought to be the the server in
question and was quite surprised to see a virtual machine running in
vmware on that server - same whether by name and by IP address. Both
those machines have a DHCP fixed lease set in the IPCop box. Looking at
those lease settings and the mac addresses, everything is correct so
perhaps they aren't being picked up correctly, plus, I was seeing some
screwy things in my arp cache which is now looking better.
So now, though not having the full picture, I at least have a few things
to come back to and check out on Monday and it's starting to make some
sense. It's definitely been one of those weeks!
Cheers,
Roger
